Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fund had dropped to $14,000,000, and it was forced to suspend all payments. Three days later, the nation's 480,000 hard and soft coal miners left the pits in what the UMW called a "spontaneous" walkout. The immediate reason given for the walkout was the default on fund payments by the Southern operators and the new slogan, "no welfare, no work," was conceived. The walkout, however, included the Northern and Western mines which sent their regular monthly payment of $3,000,000 to the Fund on September...
...John was fit to be tied. He reached for his pen and served Island Creek's Francis with an ultimatum: ". . . In your mad and vengeful attack on the existence of the fund, you have rightfully calculated that you are bleeding it white ... A continuation of your policy of default and smash may cause reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry. Will you or will you not remit?" Lewis rumbled...
Even by overworking Grant's predicament to the last adolescent titter, Male War Bride's three scripters have been unable to stretch it to the picture's length. By evident default, fully half the film must first detail the couple's courtship, a fixed bout in the battle of the sexes...
...default. Last week, for the third time in six weeks, Premier Ho Ying-chin sent in his resignation. This time President Li Tsung-jen accepted it. Li submitted to a Legislative Yuan meeting at Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal...
Kirkland's baseball team battled to a 10 to 2 victory over Dudley yesterday, but last place Dunster didn't even dare face Adams and lost by default...